Soluch concentration camp

The Soluch concentration camp was an Italian concentration camp in Suluq (also known as Soluch) in the Italian colony of Libya during the Pacification of Libya that took place from 1928 to 1932.[1] It was here that the famous Senussi anti-colonial rebel leader Omar Mukhtar was executed.[1] The camp is recorded as having a population of 20,123 people.[2]

Execution of Omar Mukhtar, Soluch 1931

See also

References
  1. Geoff Simons. Libya and the West: From Independence to Lockerbie. Oxford, England, UK: Centre for Libyan Studies, 2003. P. 12.
  2. Michael R. Ebner. Geoff Simons. Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy. New York, New York, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2011. P. 261.

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